Forbes estimated at $18.4 billion the personal fortune of Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio, ranking him 57th on the magazine’s annual list this year of billionaires globally.

Dalio was one of 17 Connecticut residents to make this year’s list, of more than 600 in the United States and 2,150 globally, with Forbes calculating an $800 million increase in Dalio’s net worth last year leading the world’s largest hedge fund based in Westport.

Forbes has dropped Paul Tudor Jones II from the ranks of Connecticut billionaires, after the Tudor Investment Corp. founder established residency in Palm Beach, Fla. after purchasing a mansion there in 2016. Tudor Investment Corp. moved its Connecticut office to Stamford last year from Greenwich where Tudor Jones long listed residency, ranking him just inside the top 350 billionaires on this year’s Forbes list with assets of $5.1 billion.

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos led the list a second straight year with $131 billion in assets, with the United States adding 21 billionaires last year on a net basis including Kylie Jenner, at age 21 the youngest self-made billionaire ever as defined by Forbes based on the estimated value of her Kylie Cosmetics brand.

The next four richest Americans were Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg. President Trump’s net worth was flat from a year ago at $3.1 billion, nearly half of those assets representing New York City real estate he controls.

Steve Cohen of Greenwich ranked second among Connecticut billionaires and just outside the top 100 globally, with $12.9 billion in personal assets leading Point72 Asset Management in Stamford.

Other Connecticut residents to make the list include Hyatt Hotels heiress Karen Pritzker of Branford; Viking Global Investors chief Andreas Halvorsen of Darien; Subway co-founder Peter Buck of Danbury; Cargill heiresses and siblings Alexandra Daitch of Old Lyme and Lucy Stitzer of Greenwich; and Greenwich residents Vince McMahon Jr. of WWE, Cliff Asness, David Kabiller and John Liew of AQR Capital Management, Stephen Mandel Jr. of Lone Pine Capital, Christian Haub of Tengelmann Group, Mario Gabelli of Gamco, William Berkley of W.R. Berkley, Brad Jacobs of XPO Logistics, and William Macaulay of First Reserve.

China had the biggest net drop in billionaires from a year ago, with 49 fewer this year according to Forbes estimates.